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Contemporary Poetry: A Cultural Bridge between Ukraine and the US

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program and the Harriman Institute for a talk by Taras Malkovych (Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Columbia University).

In his presentation Mr. Malkovych will discuss his Fulbright project, the Anthology of Young US Poetry, which aims to act as a "kulturträger" helping to fill the large gap that exists in translating post-Beat US poetry into Ukrainian. In this respect he will focus on the poetry of both cultures - examples of Ukrainian and American young poetry will be recited and general trends in contemporary poetry of both countries will be analyzed. He will also talk about major aspects of the poetries, such as the LGBT aspect in American poetry and its possible perception in Ukraine, as well as the topic of war in Ukrainian poetry and its threat to the quality of Ukrainian texts. He will discuss the perception of poetry today and consider a synthesis of the arts as a means of improving this perception. Finally, he will provide a comparative analysis of literary venues in the two countries and will look at how exchanging experiences in organizing literary events in both countries can be explored as a means to aid the popularization of contemporary young poetry in the USA and in Ukraine.

Taras Malkovych lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. He graduated from the department of theory and practice of translation at the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University and is now a postgraduate there, researching issues of Ukrainian and international film translation. He is a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University, researching modern American poetry. His poems and of his translations have been published in Ukrainian literary periodicals and literary web-resources, and were translated into Polish, English, German, Bulgarian, and Russian. He has been a participant at many literary festivals and is the author and compiler of the anthology “Snovydy. Sny Ukrayinskykh Pysmennykiv” (“The Sleepwalkers. Dreams of Ukrainian Writers”, 2010) and the author of the poetry collection “Toy, khto lyubyt’ dovhi slova” (“The one who loves long words”, 2013). He is International Connections Manager for A-BA-BA-HA-LA-MA-HA Publishers.

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Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University for a presentation by Sergei Zhuk, Professor of Russian and Eastern European History at Ball State University, of his book Soviet Americana: The Cultural History of Russian and Ukrainian Americanists (I.B. Tauris, 2018).

The Harriman Institute and the Russian American Cultural Center (RACC) present an exhibition curated by Regina Khidekel. Many Russian émigré artists have invigorated the New York art scene over the past three decades. The '90s was a particularly vibrant decade for integration and the search for relevance in the realm of contemporary art and critical discourse, areas that had been lacking in Russia during the post-Soviet transition. This exhibition aims to revitalize the history of Russian artists in New York during the 1990s and early aughts.